For some reason, WoW got removed from my Nvidia Geforce Experience control panel. I don’t know why. I tried scanning several locations on my PC, including a direct path where the WoW executable is located, still nothing. Anyone know how to fix this? I looked online but found nothing. I don’t want to do a complete reinstall but I guess I’ll have to if I don’t find a solution. Any input helps. Thank you
Geforce Experience is a glorified driver downloader. It always tries to jack up the settings on my games higher than I prefer.
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does it show up in the blizzard launcher when you scan for it? otherwise you could just go to their website and manually download the graphics card drivers.
Can you elaborate? I don’t see Geforce Experience on the Blizzard launcher. I don’t see any WoW programs either; not even the Classic-Era servers.
geforce experience isn’t that just a driver downloader?
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It downloads drivers but also optimizes your games through custom settings and AA profiles that are just really convenient for me to do without having to do it myself
I just opened mine and it had an update. Have you tried updating the app itself?
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My drivers are updated. If the app itself has an update, can you direct me where to find that?
to be honest you can just manually download it yourself from their website if it isn’t working. it isn’t that hard to setup graphics settings yourself.
It updates when you open it.
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I guess so, but using a 970 I use moderate settings. The app would recommend some high graphics in some areas like liquid textures and terrain but lower shadows. Also had a custom AA profile that would use a different monitor resolution. I don’t remember all those settings off the top of my head but if I can manually add it from the website, can you assist me in doing that? Thanks a bunch.
Yep, I just opened mine and it automatically updated. Maybe try reinstalling it, if nothing else?
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Guess I’ll have to try reinstalling it then. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks again
My settings are easy, everything is maxed out.
So, this is odd. I did a complete uninstall and reinstalled the entire program. Upon reinstalling, it showed World of Warcraft in Tile View as a defaulted scanned game. Then I did another scan to include games it hasn’t included yet by default, and then it removed WoW again. Not hide it, but completely removed it. I’m unsure what is causing this, but it should have administrative permissions so …kinda at a loss.
I should note that when clicking on WoW before it is removed from the program that it tells me “unable to retrieve settings” and doesn’t add it to scanned games after that. Don’t know what more I can do.
This only happens with WoW. Every other game shows up just fine, but it’s only WoW that this is having problems with. Maybe I have to reinstall WoW, but my God… a 70GB reinstall just to have my graphics driver detect the app seems like a huge hassle.
Cool story. Changing the oil in your car isn’t that hard either but I still take it somewhere so I don’t have to bother with it.
I would hold off on reinstalling the game. It sounds like something in that nVidia driver is conflicting with the latest WoW patch.
In the mean time just use settings that have been working for you. I don’t think you’ll notice much, if any, difference.
The good news is that their drivers are updated pretty often, so it may just be a little bit before it starts working again.
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cool trolling. this is an alternative. sorry if that makes you angry. nvidia still provides support for older drivers (including the 970) so he would be able to download them if geforce experience isn’t working for wow.
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You aren’t going crazy - I have the exact same issue. Not sure where it went but I wanted to look at what it said was optimal settings since I was messing with my WTF folder and wanted to make sure settings were correct.
Today I got a new SSD and with it had to reinstall WoW so, now it works. Apparently WoW needed to be reinstalled for the graphics driver to work, HOWEVER there was also an update to my graphics driver today so one of those things allowed it to be detected in the driver panel.